Andre Vacha
@andrepology on X, BlueSky
andre@uni.minerva.edu
I’m a design technologist who uses the design process to guide and ethically-orient product development, from high-level conceptualisation to low-level implementation.
I studied Data Science at Minerva University, with an emphasis on applied ML and complex systems modelling. I sent time at Deepcore, Softbank’s Applied AI subsidiary, and DeSci Labs.
Inspired and humbled by complexity theory, I’ve embedded the practice of systems thinking within my work, and this site’s name pays homage to the paths that systems out of attractor states. If the path into an attractor state is a spiral, then the path upwards is a curl.
Reading List
Inspirations
@andrepology on X, BlueSky
andre@uni.minerva.edu
I’m a design technologist who uses the design process to guide and ethically-orient product development, from high-level conceptualisation to low-level implementation.
I studied Data Science at Minerva University, with an emphasis on applied ML and complex systems modelling. I sent time at Deepcore, Softbank’s Applied AI subsidiary, and DeSci Labs.
Inspired and humbled by complexity theory, I’ve embedded the practice of systems thinking within my work, and this site’s name pays homage to the paths that systems out of attractor states. If the path into an attractor state is a spiral, then the path upwards is a curl.
Reading List
- Stuck On The Platform by Geert Lovink. Notes here.
- Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield
- Ways of Being by James Bridle
- maybe its not so bad by Carla Ostmann
- The User Condition by Silvio Lorusso. Notes here.
- Strangers To Ourselves by Rachel Aviv
- The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin. Notes here.
- Perfect Days by Wim Wenders
- Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong
- Can You Imagine by Sublime. Notes here.
Inspirations
- are.na, a toolkit for assembling new worlds from the scraps of old ones
- kinopio, a spatial note taking tool for visually collecting and connecting your thoughts
- Modem Works, office for desgn and innovation with an end date
- dan-ball Powder Game (2006), a browser-based multiplayer physics simulator